I am becoming seriously Vitamin D deficient; Easter is this Sunday and it's snowing! Egg hunts are threatening to be indoors on Saturday and I am threatening to fly south. I need sun and heat and soft dirt and so far, we're 0 for 3.
Yesterday was the beginning of "Middleton Unplugged". During the day, we all use the technology that we need to do our "work", but nothing for entertainment purposes and when the family comes back together in the evening, everything goes off that isn't homework related. It has been nice and quiet and BEAUTIFUL. No radios, no computer games. Aaaahhh! Some of my older children don't revel in it like I do, but it is good for all of us to get back to good, old fashioned pondering time.
Middleton is celebrating it's 100's anniversary this month and there are a lot of community events planned. It's a good opportunity to mingle and get to know our neighbors better. They have asked for short essays about what Middleton means to us, to be included in a book that will go in a time capsule. I have taken the challenge, though I am finding it difficult to contain my feelings in 700 words or less. Fred, Mikayla and Eden are helping me and it has been therapeutic.
I am looking so forward to General Conference this weekend and all of the good, uplifting family time that creates. The General Y.W. broadcast last Saturday was AMAZING and wet my appetite for that spiritual enlightenment that seems to just breath renewal of motivation and hope and the active desire to keep fighting the good fight. It is so perfect when it happens to fall on Easter. I love that.
Mom and Dad's homecoming was so enjoyable. It is good to gather as family and have the opportunity just to visit. Jordan, Mikayla and Eden got help from some of the cousins and made a cute video for the occasion, which Mikayla is trying to post on Cousin Connection. It really turned out quite cute, though they had some technical difficulties with the sound. They are truly nuts!!!
Glad to have you back home, Mom and Dad!
Yesterday was the beginning of "Middleton Unplugged". During the day, we all use the technology that we need to do our "work", but nothing for entertainment purposes and when the family comes back together in the evening, everything goes off that isn't homework related. It has been nice and quiet and BEAUTIFUL. No radios, no computer games. Aaaahhh! Some of my older children don't revel in it like I do, but it is good for all of us to get back to good, old fashioned pondering time.
Middleton is celebrating it's 100's anniversary this month and there are a lot of community events planned. It's a good opportunity to mingle and get to know our neighbors better. They have asked for short essays about what Middleton means to us, to be included in a book that will go in a time capsule. I have taken the challenge, though I am finding it difficult to contain my feelings in 700 words or less. Fred, Mikayla and Eden are helping me and it has been therapeutic.
I am looking so forward to General Conference this weekend and all of the good, uplifting family time that creates. The General Y.W. broadcast last Saturday was AMAZING and wet my appetite for that spiritual enlightenment that seems to just breath renewal of motivation and hope and the active desire to keep fighting the good fight. It is so perfect when it happens to fall on Easter. I love that.
Mom and Dad's homecoming was so enjoyable. It is good to gather as family and have the opportunity just to visit. Jordan, Mikayla and Eden got help from some of the cousins and made a cute video for the occasion, which Mikayla is trying to post on Cousin Connection. It really turned out quite cute, though they had some technical difficulties with the sound. They are truly nuts!!!
Glad to have you back home, Mom and Dad!
